Survival

Slaves to wages
The working poor
Day to day
Week to week
Income trapped
Life narrowly mapped

Slaves to things
The working poor
Back to basics
One by one
Inequity trapped
Futures widely capped

Slaves to systems
The working poor
Compliance rarely rewarded
Good governance retarded
Freedom boxed
Progressiveness mobbed

By Simone Beatrice Naik Noemdoe, 2012-02-09.

Layered Lives

Archives
Stores knowledge of our pasts
Records will us outlast

Earth layers
Stores the history of nature
Without protection we face failure

Tree Rings
Stores knowledge of every season
Revealing its core almost treason

Old bones
Stored living moments
Secrets revealed less coded

By Simone Beatrice Naik Noemdoe, 2012-02-09.